You can thank Gatchaman for every 5 man sentai team ever. What amuses me is they were inspired by American Superhero comics.

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That's not so ironic, considering the Spider-Man tokusatsu show from the '70s. That genre has always had a lot in common with American hero comics. What's ironic is that when this distantly Americana-inspired stuff gets imported to the U.S. it somehow seems foreign to us.